Friday, February 29, 2008

Parisian Stage Actor Wisdom

You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. – Sacha Guitry

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Philosopher Wisdom

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices – William James

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Humorist Wisdom

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. – E. B. White

Monday, February 25, 2008

Royal Wisdom

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

Friday, February 22, 2008

Producer Wisdom

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. – Jane Wagner

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Humorist Wisdom

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? – James Thurber

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

English Novelist Wisdom

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Writer/Director Wisdom

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron

Monday, February 18, 2008

Composer Wisdom

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. – Edgard Varese

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Literary Wisdom

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. David Herbert Lawrence

Friday, February 15, 2008

Fantasy Writer Wisdom

We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged. – John M. Ford

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Royal Wisdom

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Political Satirist Wisdom

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites.’ – Larry Hardiman

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Satirist/Comedian Wisdom

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. – Mark Russell

Monday, February 11, 2008

Composer Wisdom

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “you should make a point of trying every once, except incest and folk dancing. – Sir Arnold Bax

Friday, February 08, 2008

Raconteur Wisdom

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. – Quentin Crisp

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

English Journalist Wisdom

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K.Chesterton

1st Earl of Beaconsfield Wisdom

I repeat….that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for it’s exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

British Philosopher Wisdom

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury – John Stuart Mill

Friday, February 01, 2008

Abolitionist Wisdom

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass